different between murmuring vs burble

English

Verb

murmuring

1. present participle of murmur

Noun

murmuring (countable and uncountable, plural murmurings)

1. A sound that murmurs.

   the murmurings of trees in the wind

2. A complaint against something.

   • Do all things without murmurings and disputings.

   • 1796, Maria Edgeworth, The Parent's Assistant

     When Mrs. Churchill's orders were made known, they caused many secret marvellings and murmurings.

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??.b?l/
• Rhymes: -??(r)b?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English burblen (“to bubble”), imitative.

Noun

burble (plural burbles)

1. A bubbling, gurgling sound, as of a creek.
2. A gush of rapid speech.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 3,

     He could hear the music in the distance, and the burble and laughter from the library, and a high ringing in his own ears.

3. The turbulent boundary layer about a moving streamlined body.

Verb

burble (third-person singular simple present burbles, present participle burbling, simple past and past participle burbled)

1. To bubble; to gurgle.
2. To babble; to speak in an excited rush.

   She burbled on, as if I cared to listen.

Derived terms

• burbly

Translations

Etymology 2

Scottish; probably connected Old French barbouiller (“to confound”).

Noun

burble

1. Trouble; disorder.

Verb

burble (third-person singular simple present burbles, present participle burbling, simple past and past participle burbled)

1. (transitive) To trouble or confuse.

References

• (etymology 1) American Heritage Dictionary.

Anagrams

• beblur, lubber, rebulb, rubble